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OscarsMovieNews.com Presents:Oakland City Auditor Michael Houston Interview On Crime Grant Application Matter With Zennie Abraham
. A vlog by the YouTube channel named in the video’s upper left corner and serves as the original blog post for this content.Oakland City Auditor Michael C. Houston Interview On Report On Failed Crime Grant Application With Zennie AbrahamOn May 1st, Oakland City Auditor Michael C. Houston and his staff released the report called “Audit of the City of Oakland’s application for funding from the State of California’s Organized Retail Theft Prevention (ORTP) Grant Program”.The findings of the report are controversial as this summary indicates:“City departments and community members spent weeks applying for millions of dollars of grant funding, but isolated and disorganized efforts prevented the City from submitting an application by the deadline.”And the report included this paragraph:“The audit notes the application may have been submitted timely had the Mayor exercised more leadership over the ORTP grant. While grant management is not necessarily the Mayor’s responsibility, as the Mayor indicated in her State of the City Address, the Mayor does have responsibility over the City Administration. It is appropriate for the Mayor or designee to seize control of important initiatives like the ORTP grant. Mayoral leadership would have eliminated any ambiguity about who was in charge.”Then the press release continues:Specifically, the audit recommends the City Administrator develop and implement a policy that reflects best practices in grants management. The audit further recommends this policy include guidance on key activities such as pre-application evaluation and delineating staff roles and responsibilities and require advance approval for grants from the City Administrator’s Office involving more than one City department or outside entities. Last, the City Administrator should appoint a member of the City’s senior management, with appropriate and sufficient knowledge, skills, and abilities to oversee inter-departmental grants.“Many members of the community wanted to know ‘who dropped the ball’ on applying for the grant,” Auditor Houston stated. “During the audit, however, it was clear that no single person or entity was to blame but rather, numerous shortcomings contributed to the City not submitting its application timely.”Auditor Houston also noted: “Our audit revealed that people throughout the City and in the community made a good-faith effort and worked hard to secure the ORTP grant; unfortunately, in this case, effort and intention were not sufficient.”Interim City Auditor will be my guest at 2:45 PM PST – 5:45 PM EST here at Zennie62 YouTube Channel, live.And also here:https://ift.tt/vmb2V48Join us.
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This is a major part of Zennie62Media , Inc.’s new and innovative approach to the production of news media. What we call “The Third Wave of Media”. The uploaded video is from a YouTube channel. When the video is “liked” by Zennie62 YouTube, then it is automatically uploaded to and formatted automatically at the OscarsMovieNews.com site and Zennie62-created and owned social media pages.
The overall objective here, on top of our is smartphone-enabled, real-time, on the scene reporting of news, interviews, observations, and happenings anywhere in the World and within seconds and not hours – is the use of the existing YouTube social graph on any subject in the World.
Now, news is reported with a smartphone and also by promoting current content on YouTube: no heavy and expensive cameras or even a laptop are necessary, or having a camera crew to shoot what is already on YouTube. The secondary objective is faster, and very inexpensive media content news production and distribution.
We have found there is a disconnect between post length and time to product and revenue generated. With this, the problem is far less, though by no means solved. Zennie62Media is constantly working to improve the system network coding and seeks interested content and media technology partners.
